- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:48:03 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On 11/23/10 12:58 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Why do we want to tie .className to a particular attribute name? I >> agree it may not be that convenient for authors if a particular >> language wants to use some other attr name for classes, but presumably >> they'd have really good reasons for doing that if they do it at all? > > So that you do not need namespace knowledge. Namespace knowledge where? As an implementor? Or as an author? The whole point if a universal .classList and .className is to make authors not have to deal with namespace knowledge, imo. And it doesn't require mapping to a specific attr name for that. -Boris
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